This street is typical of the villages of the Montagne de Langres, with continuous housing and street frontages facing due south-east. The houses, generally comprising a modest living area and a barn in a repetitive pattern, are typical of the homes of the village's labourers. However, a few houses depart from this "rule", where stables are still very rare: note, for example, at no. 8, a winegrower's house with a barrel-vaulted cellar entrance, and further down, the dormer window (or small dormer) included in the monumental one-piece lintel of a simple stable entrance.
This street, which runs parallel to the river, overlooks the village's old mills: the former Moulin du Chapitre, now the Moulin Charton, below the street entrance. There are also two mills belonging to the Bishop of Langres: the Moulin du Mai at the other end of the street (from the Old French maix = cultivated land unit) and the Moulin du Foultot outside the village, halfway along the road to Longeau, which was once preceded by a pond.
La rue de Longeau à Cohons
